About Mary
Mary Lee Palmer uses a client-centered approach that helps people feel heard and respected. She blends practical strategies with listening and empathy to address relationship strain, mood problems, and stress. Mary Lee Palmer is a Georgia LCSW and CSW with more than four decades of experience.
Her work covers addictions, depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people coping with grief, parenting challenges, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem issues.
How Mary works
She has long experience helping people through life transitions and career stresses. Mary Lee draws on a mix of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, mindfulness, and psychodynamic ideas. Sessions often include clear, down-to-earth techniques for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior, alongside space to understand feelings and relationship patterns.
She adapts plans to each person's needs rather than relying on one formula. Her background includes extensive work in psychiatric settings and independent practice, with roles at child and adolescent programs and hospital services. That history brought experience with trauma, chronic illness, bipolar disorder, and clients across the lifespan.
Mary Lee has also led groups for parents and adolescents and provided family-focused work. She aims for a warm, interactive style that can be playful when helpful. People can expect respectful, sensitive care that focuses on practical steps and emotional understanding.
If someone is ready to make a change, she offers steady guidance through the process.
Mary lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Mary works with
The areas below are the ones Mary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 41 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Mary Lee uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, collaborative relationship where the person's concerns guide the work. That approach focuses on listening, validation, and helping people discover their own solutions, which translates well to video and phone conversations.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT sessions typically include concrete exercises and homework that can be reviewed during video calls or sent by message between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is another tool she draws on to help people and partners notice and shift patterns in close relationships by focusing on emotions and interactional cycles.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and then suggest strategies to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most for the client's situation.
Online work offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat supports quick check-ins or shorter coaching-style contacts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent progress over time.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Book with MaryWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
What is her therapeutic style?
How long has she been practicing?
Where is she licensed and based?
Which languages are available for sessions?
What session formats are offered?
How are fees handled?
How do I begin working with her?
A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for addictions
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions
Practical therapy for stress and relationship strain